Supreme Court: Review the appellate decision in the AT&T pension reduction case, which was used as a precedent to dismiss several other national corporate pension reduction cases.

Congress has held Puerto Rico hostage for 118 years and has not given PR the right to self determination, therefore holding a slave state. Puerto Rico has the right to self government and Congress has no right to keep us from joining the world developing countries as a free and self governing body.

Rescind the section of the Executive Order which prohibits pharmacies from dispensing Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

I, Mikhail Sebastian, a 39 year old male is a stateless person who have been living in the United States of America for 16 years as a responsible tax payer with no criminal background. I came to the United States in 1995 as a citizen of ex-Soviet Union, a country that ceased to exist and along with it, my citizenship. At that time I was 22 and tried to file for political asylum in Houston, TX. Since I was not able to afford lawyers, I defended my own case in front of an immigration judge, not knowing any of the vast laws and nuances of U.S. immigration procedure. My  case was denied, I was told I would be deported. This was an issue for me, and the United States, because I am is one of the estimated 4,000 people living in the U.S. whom is considered “stateless”, or having no legal rights to any country or place to live. Difficulty often originates in that states are often reluctant to acknowledge the presence of stateless people on their territories. More often, they are counted as undifferentiated "aliens", if their presence is recognized at all. I have no rights afforded to me as a citizen. But, where do you send a man who has no home? I was born in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic to Armenian Christian-Orthodox parents, and Azerbaijan does not recognize me as their citizen. During the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia my family had to flee for safety after my aunt was killed by local people in Baku, by being stoned to death. War was escalating in the area rapidly. I lived briefly in Moscow but Russian authorities did not provide me with residency or permission to stay permanently. Finally, my parents moved to Turkmen S.S.R. in order to save their family from persecution. Since the collapse of U.S.S.R., Turkmenistan, predominantly with a Muslim population, had become a dictatorship regime. Russian language was eliminated, the non-Turkmen population was persecuted, and those who went against the dictatorship regime were jailed. As a student I was bullied by Turkmens because of my nationality, religious beliefs, refusal to learn the local language, my opposition against the dictatorship regime, and my sexual orientation as gay. Any act of homosexuality was punishable by law with up to five years in jail. I did not adjust well or fit in. I was able to finally obtain a U.S. visa and flee persecution of my beliefs and sexual orientation, coming to the U.S. for freedom and asylum. As previously stated, I could not afford a costly trial lawyer at the time of my case and was ordered deported. However, I could not leave the U.S. to travel anywhere else as similarly no other country offered permission or asylum.  In August 2002, I was “apprehended” by immigration authorities. I was placed into custody at C.C.A. (Correction Cooperation of America) in Houston, TX, to be deported to where, i did not know, as there is no place to take a man who is stateless. After six month of detention, in February 2003, I was released on order of supervision and became officially stateless since I could not be deported. D.H.S. gave me authorization to live and work in the U.S. as stateless, and I was told that the only way to fix my immigration status was if the U.S. would pass comprehensive immigration reform, which has never happened. My Order of Supervision stated that I should report to INS every three months, which I have done for the past eight years since my release in 2003. In 2010 I contacted the United Nations trying to get documentation, such as a type of passport for stateless people, and I was referred to World Service Authority, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. who were an authority regarding the issuance of World Passports to stateless people and refugees.  On December 29, 2011, I decided to travel to the U.S. territory of American-Samoa, which is overseen by the Department of Interior. I was informed by the Los Angeles Immigration Department that I could travel to that territory only if I could obtain travel permission from the Attorney General of American Samoa, since it was a territory, and not a state. I obtained that permission. Later on after I got stranded here I was told by Attorney General office here that they made a mistake giving me permission to enter the U.S. territory based on my Employment Authorization Card (they thought it was a green card) and World Passport which apparently does not consider to be a valid passport under INA.  Hawaiian Airlines checked my documents in L.A. and in Honolulu and I was told that everything was in order for my departure and return to the United States proper. On my way back, on January 02, 2012, I  was denied boarding by a station manager of Hawaiian Airlines, who told me that the Honolulu airport Immigration Office did not authorize my return as I did not have permission to return to the United States. I procured my official documentation from I.C.E. stating my status in U.S. as stateless. The airport immigration office informed me ...

We the undersigned are academics and activists, organizers and workers, who move in solidarity with the people of Oxnard, CA, to fight the toxic fossil-fuel burning Puente power plant proposed to be sited in their city. We call upon the California Energy Commission to reject this proposal for another unnecessary, toxic power plant, which will only generate more profits and wealth for NRG, a Fortune 200 company, at the expense of the health of Oxnard residents and the already fragile planet.

Senators are collaborating to prevent federal officials, including the President of the United States, from doing their job by: 1. Declaring there would not be a hearing of a nominee to fill Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat, 2. Failure to confirm federal judges, 3. Failure to confirm more than a quarter of the administration’s most senior executive branch jobs.

Many AAO members are concerned about the direction of the AAO. This is a list of concerns and suggestions as well as an attempt to open lines of communications among rank and file members, the AAO Leadership and HOD Members to the benefit of us all.

Fighting for my Freedom. I just want to be home with my family, wife and kids.

As a citizen concerned about traffic congestion, air pollution and climate change, I urge you to launch an independent investigation into the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC) commute incentive program failure from 2008-2014. Intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), the SCCRTC commute incentive program achieved well under 1% of the expected results. This unacceptable outcome was confirmed with the Stop Work Order issued by the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District in January 2014. Final result: 0.16% of projected VMT / pollution reduction was achieved. Do not ignore this second call for an independent investigation. The first call for an independent investigation was in 2012. The SCCRTC avoided scrutiny at that time by dismissing the concerns raised as premature, and re-iterating confidence in the program. The program continued for another two years - with performance of the program dropping even further. Questions over this failure are now more than important than ever with the SCCRTC scheduled to approve a ten-year $5.6 billion regional transportation plan (RTP) on June 26. From page 13 of the plan: ‘Much effort on this 2014 RTP and the 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan has been focused on prioritizing projects that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions primarily from a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT).’ How can the public have confidence in, and be expected to pay for the SCCRTC’s $5.6 billion plan to ‘reduce greenhouse gas emissions primarily from a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT)’, if the SCCRTC failed so abysmally at VMT/pollution reduction over the past five years? Reasons for this failure need to be fully understood, and appropriate actions taken, before the public can be expected to entrust the SCCRTC with a $5.6 billion budget and transportation planning over the next 10 years. As a Transportation Commissioner you are responsible for serving the public by providing oversight of the SCCRTC. On June 26 I strongly urge you to postpone approval of the 2014 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) until completion of an independent investigation of the SCCRTC’s commute incentive program failure from 2008-2014.

Mr. Silver, the over-use and misuse of standardized tests is hurting our students and hampering our efforts to teach. Please help students and teachers end the destructive focus on high-stakes testing by sending an open letter to the President and Education Secretary Arne Duncan explaining why you think overtesting and the use of faulty test scores to evaluate teachers is problematic.